When We Were Birds by UEA alumna Ayanna Lloyd Banwo has won the Goldsboro Books Glass Bell Award. Ayanna (pictured) is from Trinidad and graduated from the University of the West Indies before gaining an MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) at UEA in 2018. She is currently completing her PhD in Creative & Critical […]
Goldsboro Books Glass Bell Award
Ayanna Lloyd Banwo and Tom Watson shortlisted for Goldsboro Books Glass Bell Award
Novels by two UEA alumni have been shortlisted for the Goldsboro Books Glass Bell Award. Ayanna Lloyd Banwo (pictured), who graduated from the MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) in 2018 and is currently completing her PhD in Creative and Critical Writing, is nominated for When We Were Birds (Hamish Hamilton); and Tom Watson, who graduated from […]
Tom Watson and Ayanna Lloyd Banwo longlisted for Goldsboro Books Glass Bell Award
Novels by two UEA alumni have been longlisted for the Goldsboro Books Glass Bell Award. Tom Watson (pictured), who graduated from the MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) in 2017 as the recipient of the Curtis Brown Prize, is nominated for Metronome (Bloomsbury), and Ayanna Lloyd Banwo, who graduated from the MA in Creative Writing […]
Kelleigh Greenberg-Jephcott shortlisted for Goldsboro Books Glass Bell Award
Swan Song, the debut novel by UEA alumna Kelleigh Greenberg-Jephcott, has been shortlisted for this year’s Goldsboro Books Glass Bell Award, which celebrates storytelling across all genres of contemporary fiction. Kelleigh (pictured) graduated from the MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) in 2017. As a work-in-progress, Swan Song was awarded the 2015 Bridport / Peggy Chapman-Andrews Award and […]
Diana Evans and Kelleigh Greenberg-Jephcott longlisted for Goldsboro Books Award
Two UEA alumni have been nominated for this year’s Goldsboro Books Glass Bell Award, which celebrates storytelling across all genres of contemporary fiction. Diana Evans is longlisted for her third novel, Ordinary People, published by Chatto & Windus, and Kelleigh Greenberg-Jephcott for her debut Swan Song, published by Hutchinson. Both books were previously longlisted for the Women’s […]
John Boyne wins Goldsboro Books Glass Bell Award
The Heart’s Invisible Furies by UEA alumnus John Boyne has won the 2018 Goldsboro Books Glass Bell Award, which is worth £2,000 and rewards ‘compelling storytelling with brilliant characterisation and a distinct voice that is confidently written and assuredly realised’. The novel was published by Transworld last year, and has recently been followed by A Ladder to […]
